(Washington) Former President Donald Trump’s tax returns were released Friday by a US House committee after a lengthy legal battle.
Donald Trump, who has entered a new race for the White House in 2024, unlike all his predecessors since the 1970s, has not disclosed his tax returns, raising many questions about their content.
In mid-December, a parliamentary committee voted in favor of releasing six years of the billionaire’s tax returns between 2015 and 2020.
A panel of elected officials had been seeking documents sent by the billionaire to tax authorities for three years in between, which he denied. The Supreme Court finally ruled in their favor at the end of November.
Donald Trump strongly condemned the decision in a press release to CBS on Friday, though he assured that the statements “represent my victory.”
Their release is a further setback for the former White House tenant, who has already been the subject of numerous investigations into the management of his archives and his financial affairs in New York.
Donald Trump’s lack of transparency, making his wealth a campaign argument, has fueled years of speculation about the extent of his fortune or conflicts of interest.
His family business, the Trump Organization, has not investigated the former Republican president since an investigation in New York in early December accused him of financial and tax fraud.
A separate congressional report on U.S. tax officials shows that the latter are not following all of Donald Trump’s orders.
“This is a colossal failure of the American tax authorities,” condemned Democrat-elect Richard Neal, chairman of the committee.
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